Lovely Little Things

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

I really love the concept of this site but I find it hard to keep it going since it's so new and not exactly overburdened with followers. :) However, it makes a difference to me, and to at least a few other people, and that's enough. That, in itself, is a lovely little thing. :)

So the Twitter account (https://twitter.com/#!/lovelylthings) will be active again, and I hope you'll use the #tinyjoy hashtag to post about things that make you happy and add to your life!

Sunday, July 3, 2011

The utter best lovely little thing is that I've come back to this! I adore the concept of it but it turns out to be so hard to maintain. I get busy and it slips away.

Which is EXACTLY what I was trying to avoid by doing this in the first place. :)

So I'm back and I will work throughout July on getting clear on how I'll take good care of "Lovely Little Things" moving forward.

For now, I know that on Twitter I'll be using the hashtag #tinyjoy when I post. If you have some wonderful little detail you'd like to share, feel free to use the hashtag and I'll gladly repost your moment!

I'd also like to share this one:

A #tinyjoy from @CreativeTeddi: "the viewing of a 9-month-old Gorilla at the Buffalo zoo through the eyes of a child. It melted my heart."

Saturday, December 4, 2010

This has been a STRANGE week. We had a cat arrive in our lives by an unexpected method. She won't replace our cat who died in November of liver cancer but she is certainly taking the edge off that sadness.

As a result of the oddities of the week, I didn't post much, and I probably won't for the next two weeks either. We're off to Florida next weekend and I am woefully unprepared. But I WILL post on my return!

Sunday, October 31, 2010

First, there's the cute Gratitude Dance video, at http://fb.me/KcHuOuMq. It made me laugh, and that's a good thing, right?

Second, I love this quote from @HarmonicLife: "There is a calmness to a life lived in gratitude, a quiet joy." Yesterday I was having iPhone issues and was frustrated, and then had a flash of "sure, but you have the money to have an iPhone" and calmed myself down. Rereading this quote this morning has even more meaning for me as a result.

And finally, I have a guest post I wrote for an online friend's blog, about my five favorite motivational quotes. Check it out at http://ow.ly/2YLhN and maybe you'll find your new fav!

How "Lovely Little Things" Works

1. Tell me about your lovely or happy or beautiful moment. You can do that by commenting on any blog post, or on Twitter.

2. I will pass them along so everyone can be inspired by the joy you found in your life.

3. If you follow Lovely Little Things on Twitter you will see every post. If you subscribe to this blog you'll see a few of my favorites every Sunday.

Simple, but I hope it'll be profoundly effective!

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"Planning to Live"

The "Lovely Little Things" site and Twitter feed, started in October 2010, came out of a phrase in my novel, "Planning to Live".

Determined to lose weight for her best friend's wedding, goal-obsessed Rhiannon flees her parents' Christmas Day feast to avoid overeating but her car skids off the deserted road into a tree. Trapped and bleeding, with her cell phone out of reach, she struggles to escape, and to accept that she's spent her whole life planning but hasn't ever really lived.

During the book, she realizes how many of the lovely little things of life she's let pass her by. As I worked on the book, I vowed not to let that happen to me any more, and this site is the result.

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I've been writing full-time since 2005 and now have nine novels available to the public with more on the way.
In my spare time, I read (I'm a natural 1200 WPM speed reader), run, swim, crochet, play video games that encourage button mashing rather than technique, play drums and clarinet, and hang out with my husband Mr. W (the world's most patient man).